Eng-er-land Euro2012 squad

K-9 wrote: »

He's trolling Dalglish! Carroll, Downing and Henderson on standby.

Maybe he really dislikes Liverpool now and is trying to get them to pay all the add-ons for England caps by playing them?

If Parker doesn't make it with his injury, Henderson will be going to the Euros. Brilliant

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Cant see too many of the other countries having sleepless nights over that England squad.

Micah Richards is miles ahead of Glen Johnson as a right back

richards went completely off the boil after the turn of the year

bullvine wrote: »

Thats an awful squad, England really have some very poor players.

I'd swap it for ours no bother

invinciblePRSTV wrote: »

Sorry i thought Jimmy Iovine had posted the squad sans Milner at 1.06.

There were a few mistakes in the one I posted I think.

Slightly OT but Nick Collins is a dope. Dunno how he's the chief football reporter or whatever he is. All he ever seems to do is just list off a load of rumours without any basis at all.

Don't know why everyone is so surprised about Carrick. By my reckoning he hasn't played for England now in nearly two years.

#HodgsonOut is trending on Twitter. The poor chap can't make a correct decision.

Is Jones gone as cover at right back?

theteal wrote: »

they have a live poll on the sky sports site. it's almost refreshing to see the that a majority of the fans have realistic expectations of this squads potential hopes

Their are some proper Wind up merchants on that

I'm really pleased with carroll and downing, both have been outstanding this season

now for the squad i'd have picked in my, um, infinite wisdom

GK: Hart, Ruddy, Green

Johnson, Richards, Jones, Terry, Lescott, Cahill, Cole, Baines

M: Gerrard, Parker, Carrick, Walcott, Young, Milner, Johnson, Barry

F: Rooney, Carroll, Welbeck, Sturridge

this is considering the fact Rio is maybe judged to be incapable of playing lots of games in a row. he'd be in instead of Jones if so.

you can basically play Gerrard instead of Rooney for the first 2 games. do not play him in CM.

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Barry

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Parker

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Walcott

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Gerrard

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Young

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Welbeck

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then depending on how England are doing, drop Welbeck, Young or Walcott for Gerrard if he has to play, and depending on the form of them all.

you have Carrick who can cover for CM, or come in if form from either first choice is poor.

you have options off the bench, both in pace and trickery, as well as the big brute that is Carroll.

looking at the pool of players, yes, it's not the greatest, but i don't think Roy's done himself huge favours with his picks that weren't in the guaranteed 16 or so.

Ox is the "wild card", but players like he, Holt, Gibbs, Sinclair, Caulker, Britton, all should really have been at least given a cap or 2, or at least been around the camp at some stage in the last couple of friendlies in order to give more freshness to the scene, and given the manager something to think about.

i don't blame Roy for not throwing more than Ox into the deep end with this tournament.

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

Except there was a new manager, and people assumed he would be sensible

And Carrick was coming off a season where he was arguably the best English centre midfielder in the league.

I genuinely feel for him, not only with not making a squad he deserved to make - I can only imagine how he feels seeing Jordan Henderson in the standby squad ahead of him.

Did Carrick make sounds about wanting to play in the Euros? I only ask because I've long got the impression that ManU is one of those clubs where players who have reached 'veteran' age aren't exactly encouraged to bust a gut to participate for their respective national teams anymore.

JerryHandbag wrote: »

No Joey Barton?!

Yeah, last time (only time?) he was with the England squad he spent most of the trip distracting the other players with his views on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They couldn't get enough of it!

theteal wrote: »

looking back, perhaps my indignation at heskey's omission was misconstrued as trolling

My calls for Barton to be in the squad to add some steely determination to the squad.... Isn't going well.

who is on the standby list?

Turtyturd wrote: »

Richards can be extra p*ssed off.

Definitely. Jones is good but I don't like him as a RB. Richards is streets ahead of him there. But then Jones is streets ahead of Richards covering CB if a few got injured there.

Having 9 midfielders is way too much.No need for Downing at all. Richards or another forward should be in ahead of him.

If Parker doesn't recover then Henderson will get there. Carrick must have really annoyed Hodgson to not even make the reserve list ahead of Henderson. It's a terrible team.